Posted on 04/04/2022 4:49:10 PM PDT by Houserino
NEW YORK (AP) — Most U.S. gun owners say they own firearms to protect themselves and their loved ones, surveys show. But a study published Monday suggests people who live with handgun owners are shot to death at a higher rate than those who don’t have such weapons at home.
“We found zero evidence of any kind of protective effects” from living in a home with a handgun, said David Studdert, a Stanford University researcher who was the lead author of the Annals of Internal Medicine study.
The study has several shortcomings. For example, the researchers said they could not determine which victims were killed by the handgun owners or with the in-home weapons. They couldn’t account for illegal guns and looked only at handguns, not rifles or other firearms.
The dataset also was limited to registered voters in California who were 21 and older. It’s not clear that the findings are generalizable to the whole state, let alone to the rest of the country, the authors acknowledged.
But some outside experts said the work was well done, important and the largest research of its kind.
“I would call this a landmark study,” said Cassandra Crifasi, a gun violence policy researcher at Johns Hopkins University. “This contributes to our understanding of the potential causal relationship between guns in the home and homicides,” she said.
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I found that part especially weird.
Teddy Kennedy’s Oldsmobile killed more people than all of my firearms, combined.
Consider the source.
As such, DILLIGAFF.
Do I Look Like I Give A Flying....
maybe the 12 deaths were intruders or home invaders and died by the gun/homeowner and the 5 deaths were gunless/homeowner at the hands of intruders. That would be one way of explaining it.
Piece of cake...shouldn't take more than 6 months.
Leaves out the area the people live. Where I live the chance of having someone break in your home approaches zero. Home invaders get shot. They move to places like California where the homeowner is more likely to go to jail than the burglar.
And how many are killed by knives and heavy objects?
Ridiculous fixed study.
homicide is sometimes justified.
It is not in and of itself a crime.
It just means one person killed another.
This stupid article is not claiming more MURDERS. Just more homicides.
John Lott looked into similar statistics about 20 years ago.
What happens is that handgun ownership is higher in high-crime areas (naturally). And that in high-crime areas, the kind of people who are most likely to have somebody who may want to come kill them (criminals) are more likely to have a gun.
So 0.8 more humans with guns will die each year, due to a gun
in the home?
Yikes. The horrors.
Bad reporting. Think how many people will be away tonight
until four in the morning worrying about this.
Between 0.0% and 0.000000001% of the populace.
Is this the AP that told us if we get vaccinated we would not get Covid.
Oops...
So 0.8 more humans with guns will die each year, due to a gun
in the home?
Yikes. The horrors.
Bad reporting. Think how many people will be awake tonight
until four in the morning worrying about this.
Between 0.0% and 0.000000001% of the populace.
Oh, logic and reason again, you racist!/sarc
Well, I guess that settles that.
I is kind of obvious that people who have guns will shoot more people than people who don’t have guns. It’s nearly impossible to shoot someone if you don’t have a gun. I wonder if the study differentiates between legal and illegal gun ownership. There was a case near here where a girl was killed inside her house by people with guns outside shooting into the house.
Duhh.... a person is killed with a gun more times in a home with a gun... than in homes without a gun.
Duhhh.... that sounds logical
Are they counting the hood? Or just lawful gun owners?
Studies like these have been reported by the media for years. I recall Gary Kleck taking one apart (Arthur Kellerman) saying that you might as well consider possession of insulin as a diabetes risk factor because a diabetic likely has insulin in their home.
When seconds count, cops are minutes away.
I wonder if a study of if there is a higher occurrence of homicides in gay households vs. hetero households, will ever see the light of day?
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